I don't consider myself very old, but as a volounteer steam engineering instructor I spend a lot of time with people younger than me. Sometimes I talk about things I remember from my childhood and they look at me as if I am a walking museum.
I don't know the average age of folks here on this forum, but this is geared toward the younger ones. I've deleted my age from my profile so there can be no cheating. Now here's a list of things I grew up with.
Let's start at the beginning....
I wore cloth diapers, the old fassioned ones fastened tight by PINS. Sharp ones.
I rode a tricycle made out of steel, not plastic.
When I got a little older I played in a backyard sand box with toy bulldozers made of steel with sharp corners on them.
I "drove" a pedal powered toy tractor, also made out of steel, with REAL rubber tires.
My swing set consisted of swings with hard wooden seats and a metal slide.
We had a rotary phone.
Our telivision had dials on it.
Remote control, cordless phones, and power windows in cars were all still novelties.
Merry-go-rounds in playgrounds were not considered dangerous. In fact, the goal was to have Dad spin us so fast we all flew off into the sand, and be so dizzy we couldn't walk for 5 minutes there after..
Band aids on knees and elbows were present on almost all kids between the ages of 3 and 12.
My cartoon hero was a space cowboy named Bravestarr.
My friends and I were given toy guns and encouraged to play with them.
Most young boys wanted to grow up and be fire fighters, jet pilots, locomotive enginers, or heavy equipment operators. We had no idea what the "I.T." field was.
Policemen driving through our neigborhood would wave to us, and sometimes throw us candy.
The Berlin wall still stood and the Russians were the usual villans in most action movies.
I saw "Snow White" in the theater.
When I thought of video games I thought of Pac-Man and Pole Position.
Our home computer was good for word processing..... if you were really really patient.
We had no idea what the internet was.
My first car was an old Dodge pickup truck with a five speed. I could fill it up for $20 and still get change back.
When I left my highschool graduation I got in that old dodge and went to work.
Anybody care to hazard a guess as to the age of this "old timer"
I don't know the average age of folks here on this forum, but this is geared toward the younger ones. I've deleted my age from my profile so there can be no cheating. Now here's a list of things I grew up with.
Let's start at the beginning....
I wore cloth diapers, the old fassioned ones fastened tight by PINS. Sharp ones.
I rode a tricycle made out of steel, not plastic.
When I got a little older I played in a backyard sand box with toy bulldozers made of steel with sharp corners on them.
I "drove" a pedal powered toy tractor, also made out of steel, with REAL rubber tires.
My swing set consisted of swings with hard wooden seats and a metal slide.
We had a rotary phone.
Our telivision had dials on it.
Remote control, cordless phones, and power windows in cars were all still novelties.
Merry-go-rounds in playgrounds were not considered dangerous. In fact, the goal was to have Dad spin us so fast we all flew off into the sand, and be so dizzy we couldn't walk for 5 minutes there after..
Band aids on knees and elbows were present on almost all kids between the ages of 3 and 12.
My cartoon hero was a space cowboy named Bravestarr.
My friends and I were given toy guns and encouraged to play with them.
Most young boys wanted to grow up and be fire fighters, jet pilots, locomotive enginers, or heavy equipment operators. We had no idea what the "I.T." field was.
Policemen driving through our neigborhood would wave to us, and sometimes throw us candy.
The Berlin wall still stood and the Russians were the usual villans in most action movies.
I saw "Snow White" in the theater.
When I thought of video games I thought of Pac-Man and Pole Position.
Our home computer was good for word processing..... if you were really really patient.
We had no idea what the internet was.
My first car was an old Dodge pickup truck with a five speed. I could fill it up for $20 and still get change back.
When I left my highschool graduation I got in that old dodge and went to work.
Anybody care to hazard a guess as to the age of this "old timer"